A Mentored Self-Help Intervention for Psychotic Symptom Management

Evidence supports the benefit of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) of psychosis for people experiencing psychotic symptoms, often diagnosed with schi-zophrenia. This study explores whether a mentored self-help intervention with similarities to CBT of psychosis benefits people experiencing psychotic symp-toms and diagnosed with major mental disorders. A self-help workbook stem-ming from the British psychiatric survivor and voice hearers' movements is used. Research results show significant between-group differences on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale subscale for Anxious Depression. While a conservative interpretation of this result is that it is due to chance, a more positive inter-pretation is that the mentored self-help intervention made an improvement in participant levels of depression-anxiety. If so, this supports further research on the intervention and is particularly important as over two-thirds of those diagnosed with schizophrenia experience a major depressive episode. This book is addressed to all mental health professionals who work with clients who hear voices. Mental health service users may also find it of interest.

• | Author: W. J. Casstevens
• | Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• | Publication Date: Sep 19, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3836428768
• | ISBN-13: 9783836428767